Viel nutzende und erfindungen reichende Sinnbild-Kunst, oder, Hieroglyphische Bilder Vorstellung der Tügender, Laster, Gemuts-Bewegüngen Künste und Wissenschafften ..
Johann Christoph Weigel's 1700 Nuremberg emblem book, printed for artists and craftsmen, presents allegorical figures of virtues, vices, passions, arts and sciences as numbered plates of roundels. The pages are engraved, each with twelve circular medallions in a four-row grid, one figure per roundel, standing or seated with attributes like sceptres, wings, animals and globes. A designer could draw on these compact, legible allegory figures as a ready vocabulary of symbolic poses and props.
